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Murphy Ascendant
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 08, 2012 11:46am |
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| Category | Review |
| Author | Colin McEnroe |
| News Date | Sunday, October 7, 2012 05:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I’ve had bad things to say about the Murphy campaign in recent days, and I confess I wasn’t prepared for what I saw on Sunday morning. After a slightly wobbly first 15 minutes, Chris Murphy turned the debate utterly to his own advantage, won nearly every exchange and fanned the flame of the most significant suspicion about Linda McMahon: that when you take away the expensive media campaign she still doesn’t know her way around public policy, because she only started caring about it a few years ago.
Before I say anything else, hats off to Dennis House and his panel. This was everything Denver wasn’t in terms of structure and accountability. Angela Diaz deserves some special credit for digging in and pressing when her questions weren’t answered.
Murphy deserves a lot of credit for being everything Obama wasn’t in Denver. Some of the same issues came up, and Murphy framed them energetically and explained some of his criticisms of McMahon without turning wonky.
McMahon was surprisingly bad. There are two ways to prepared for a debate. (1) You can really immerse yourself in the issues that and make sure you know how you want to talk about them. (2) You can memorize answers. |
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